There are different categories and different levels of initiation in Buddhism. There are three erroneous views held by many today concerning tantric initiations: 1) that after you receive a great initiation you no...
Don’t count others’ people’s treasures. Don’t look at what other bodhisattvas do. How they eat their breakfast. Do they have families? Did they leave foot prints in stones, etc.? Do not go outside your own practice...
Cultivation is cultivating the increase of good karma and cultivating the avoidance of bad karma. It is increasing good karmic conditions, planting good causes, and reaping good effects. It is avoiding the increase of...
Great Holy Beings showed their approval when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first gave the discourse “What Is Cultivation?” that was published in both English and Chinese as The Dharma of Cultivation...
It is useful to remember that Shakyamuni lived to be almost 80 and preached the dharma for 49 years to all kinds and levels of living beings. It is said the Buddha offered 84,000 dharma gates to counter the 84,000...
Karma or the law of causation is not a universal principle in the west, but it is becoming more well known. I became a Buddhist because I could never understand how the Christian God would allow bad things to happen to...
One of the most beautiful phenomena that has appeared many times at the Holy Vajrasana Temple and at other events related to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III are the spectacular rainbows that can be seen around the sun and...